August 20th

August 20 is the 233rd day of the year.  There are 133 days remaining until the end of the year.

1619 Culture brought to North America by 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown, Virginia. O, happy happy joy joy

1741 Danish explorer and hyperbolist Vitus Bering claims to discover Alaska

1858 Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

1896 Dial telephone is patented and named after the popular brand of soap

1920 The National Football League (NFL) is founded in the United States. Terrell Owens naked is just a bonus

1953 The Soviet Union publicly acknowledges that it had tested a hydrogen bomb–duh. Hello?!? It’s red!

1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 U.S. hit). Happily, modern technology has solved many of the issues complained about in the lyrics

1992 Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler and invents concept of tantric sex to cover his true feelings for his trainer

1998 The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.

1955 Jay Acovone, maybe gay US actor 

1962 James Marsters, US actor 

1965 Steve Cassidy, gay US pornographic actor   

1966 Colin Cunningham, maybe gay US actor 

1970 Fred Durst, US singer/Limp Bizkit 

1971 David Walliams, English comedian/actor   

1972 Marco Bonini, maybe gay Italian actor  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094693/

1972 Danny Rhymes, gay US pornographic actor 

1981 Alejandro Chabán, maybe gay Venezuelan-born US actor 

1981 Michael Rady, maybe gay US actor 

1981 Ben Barnes, maybe gay English actor 

1940 Leon Trotsky [Lev Davidovich Bronstein], pervy Ukranian Soviet Marxist revolutionary who was icepicked by Frank Jackson, chills

2007 Larry Hartsell, US martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto, has his kung fu-ed

2010 [Foley Arthur] Jack Horkheimer, maybe gay US self-taught astronomer/public television host (Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer)/executive director of Miami Planetarium, sees stars. . .up close and personal.